An Albany woman who is criminally accused of doping her 5-month-old baby with methadone -- reportedly in an effort to get him to sleep -- now faces a $900,000 lawsuit filed on behalf of her infant son.

The lawsuit, filed Friday by a lawyer representing the interests of her son, also attempts to stop Magan Michelle McDermott from collecting a $130,000 pending payment from the state for the death of her 15-year-old daughter, Gloria Joya.

McDermott -- a long-time methamphetamine user -- had lost custody of her daughter in 2015, and her daughter died from gastrointestinal problems in 2016 under the watch of the Oregon Department of Human Services. The lawsuit states that the $130,000 -- her share of a $1.25 million settlement from DHS -- is the only asset that 34-year-old McDermott has to her name.

McDermott’s son was born in July 2018, more than two years after McDermott’s daughter died. McDermott lost custody of the boy when he was seven weeks old, after he became sick from ingesting narcotics while in McDermott’s care, according to the lawsuit. DHS then placed the baby in the custody of his father, Francisco Yvanez Diaz Jr., even though Diaz had been convicted and was still on probation for strangling and assaulting McDermott in front of another child in 2017, the suit states.

Diaz brought the baby to the Benton County home of McDermott’s sister on Nov. 23, 2018, and spent time with McDermott and her sister. Early the next morning, McDermott fed the baby some of her prescription methadone, the suit alleges.

The baby suffered problems breathing, dangerous heart rhythms and lost consciousness -- leading the baby’s father to start CPR, the suit states. McDermott’s sister called 911, and McDermott ran from the home, the suit states. After paramedics arrived, McDermott texted her sister: “tell them it’s methadone in his systom (sic). I’m soo sorry just wanted to help him sleep for frankly,” according to the suit.

Paramedics gave the baby naloxone, also known as Narcan, and the boy regained consciousness, the suit states. He was taken to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland, where he spent the next two days, the suit states.

The suit says, however, that the boy might suffer long-term health consequences from oxygen deprivation to his brain caused by the methadone.

McDermott has been locked up in Benton County Jail since late November, and her criminal attorney couldn’t be reached for comment on her behalf. She has pleaded not guilty to the charges against her, including delivery of methadone to a minor and causing another person to ingest a controlled substance.

No trial date has been set in the criminal case.

McDermott is the only defendant listed in her son’s lawsuit. No litigation has been filed against DHS.

Josh Lamborn, the Portland attorney representing the infant, said he doesn’t have enough information yet to determine if DHS is liable for the baby’s injuries, but placing the baby in his father’s custody in September “certainly raises some questions. If the evidence leads to other negligent parties, I will certainly pursue them."